Archival Collection

IBERVILLE TRACE COLLECTION

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1. “A Historical Look at Louisiana’s Environment, Discover
Louisiana’s Environmental Past, History Reveals Exotic
Wildlife and Stunning Natural Landscape,” by Richard E. Condrey
(xerox from
Louisiana Environmentalist, Jan-Feb 1995, pp. 10-17)

2. “On the Eve of Conquest, Coastal Louisiana in 1699,” by
Richard E. Condrey, (xerox from
Coastwise, New Year 1997, pp. 23-28)

3. “History and Policy Developments Related to Freshwater Flow
Alterations of the Lower Mississippi River and its Distributaries,”
by Richard Condrey (5-page paper)

4. “Camino Real historic trail honor OK’d,”
Advocate, September 11, 2001

Folder-Bayou Manchac

1. Bayou Manchac: A Physiographic Interpretation, by Fred B.
Kniffen (xerox from
Geographic Review, Vol. 25, 1935, pp. 462-466)

2. Anatamaha: The Fish Place, by Charles E. Pearson, Coastal
Environments, Inc. (xerox from
Louisiana Archaeology Newsletter, Vol. 15, 1987, pp.
5-7)

3. The Iberville Canal Project: Its Relation to Anglo-French
Commercial Rivalry in the Mississippi Valley, 1763-1775, by Douglas
Stewart Brown (xerox from
Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. XXXII, No. 4,
March 1946, pp. 491-516)

4. Article II, Bayou Manchac (xerox from
DeBow’s Review, Vol. 5, Issue II, November 1868)

5. Report from The Secretary of War, 27th Congress, 3d Session,
December 1842

6. Letter of The Secretary of War, 40 Congress, 2d Session,
March 11, 1867

7. a) Letter to editor, May 3, 2001, from Charles N. Elliott

Newspaper Clippings

b) Bayou residents fear clearing will ruin beauty,
Advocate, May 3, 2001

c) Baker critical of corps’ plan to clear bayou,
Advocate, May 4, 2001

d) Residents speak against Bayou Manchac plan,
Advocate, May 17, 2001

e) Group seeks alternatives to Bayou Manchac project,
Advocate, May 23, 2001

f) Residents to help draw Manchac cleanup plan,
Advocate, June 6, 2001

g) Manchac levee fails,
Advocate, June 12, 2001

h) Stop Bayou Manchac project,
Advocate, June 20, 2001

i) Plan to clear, snag Bayou Manchac to proceed,
Advocate, July 3, 2001

j) Corps asked for quick study of Bayou Manchac flooding,
Advocate, July 31, 2001

k) Bayou Manchac cleaning awaits corps’ paperwork,
Advocate, August 7, 2001

l) Board OKs funds for Manchac study

m) Bayou Manchac work shifted to contractor,
Saturday, Baton Rouge, May 11, 2002

n) Commission Council votes down Le Pelican plan,
The Advocate, May 15, 2002

o) Donaldsonville to buy ship replica Le Pelican,
The Advocate, May 16, 2002

International Waters: Lake Pontchartrain Between Spanish
Louisiana and British West Florida, by Robert R. Rea (A paper
presented to the St. Tammany Historical Society in 1981).

“The Iberville Canal Project: Its Relation to Anglo-French
Commercial Rivalry in the Mississippi Valley, 1763-1775,” by
Douglas Stewart Brown (xeroxed from
Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. XXXII, No. 4,
March 1946, pp. 491-515)

IBERVILLE TRACE COLLECTION

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Letter of the Secretary of War communicating information in
relation to the cost of opening, for first-class steamboat
navigation, Bayou Manchac, Amite River, Lakes Maurepas and
Pontchartrain and Maps necessary to complete the report by General
McAlester relative to the survey of Bayou Manchac, made in
compliance of a resolution of the Senate of March 11, 1867, 40th
Congress, 2d. Session.

Diversion into Maurepas Swamp (PO-29), Louisiana Coastal
Wetlands Conservation and Restoration Task Force, January 2002